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New Year's Resolution Book Club, March 2023: Prismatic

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It’s March, NYRBC readers! Through the dreary drudging of the beginning of spring are crepuscular rays of warmth and beauty. We knew we wanted this month’s theme to reflect the feel of Philadelphia March while, of course, honoring Women’s History Month; however, we hit a bit of a roadblock in deciding this month’s theme. A prism refracts overwhelming, blinding beams of light into almost unbelievable scatterings of shapes and colors that, while beautiful, can be distortions or painful misrepresentations. How exactly to incorporate these huge, non-homogenous realities found in womanhood and our very existence? We decided to embrace the idea of the "Prismatic" for this month's theme, and found our answer partially in a poem of beloved writer and activist June Jordan’s entitled “These Poems”:

These poems
they are things that I do
in the dark
reaching for you
whoever you are
and
are you ready?

These words
they are stones in the water
running away

These skeletal lines
they are desperate arms for my longing and love.

I am a stranger
learning to worship the strangers
around me

whoever you are
whoever I may become.

Each of the books for this month critically, crazily, lovingly worships the strangeness in and around us through different refractions of womanhood to carry us through mad March.


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Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns
Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns
Your Driver is Waiting by Priya Guns
One of the coolest (well, by some nerd standards) perks about this job is having access to advanced reader copies, aka ARCs...
$26.00
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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
The divine source of inspiration for our NYRBC March List!
$24.00
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Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong
Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong
Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong
A memoir-in-essays is perhaps one of the most successfully versatile hybrid genres; the passion of a tiger imbues this quilt...
$17.00
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Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
The representation of women's pleasure and relational complexity in this bawdy tale is remarkably fresh...
$27.99
Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C White
Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C White
Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C White
Though many caution against pulling back the curtain on a writer's life, which is at once bound up in and obscured by...
$17.95
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The Once and Future Sex by Eleanor Janega
The Once and Future Sex by Eleanor Janega
The Once and Future Sex by Eleanor Janega
​Counteracting erasure via meticulous research (even unearthing court documents) is no small task, and Janega seems to relish...
$30.00
Little Labors by Rivka Galchen
Little Labors by Rivka Galchen
Little Labors by Rivka Galchen
As the parent of my own little puma, this book shattered and then put me back together again...
$13.95
My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains by Jessa Crispin
My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains by Jessa Crispin
My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains by Jessa Crispin
We are honored to count Jessa Crispin's uncategorizable ​(in a good way) book under the category of "Local Lit"...
$19.00
The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limón
The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limón
The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limón
Ada Limón infuses every word of her poems with heart, grace, and wit...
$24.00
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Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Nevada by Imogen Binnie
One of the most adored contemporary transfeminine stories out there. Nevada is an ode to trans womanhood - to the unknown...
$17.00
Women Talking by Miriam Toews (Movie Tie-in)
Women Talking by Miriam Toews (Movie Tie-in)
Women Talking by Miriam Toews (Movie Tie-in)
I know it's hot right now with the new movie, but the themes here are definitely worth pondering during Women's History Month...
$17.00
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Girlhood by Melissa Febos
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
In all honesty, Girlhood is a devastating autobiographical essay collection. Womanhood as a subject of metamorphosis and hurt...
$27.00
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